. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . t wear them more lightlythrough the summer solstice. There will come a rainy time, sometimes inSeptember, that will rehabilit
. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . t wear them more lightlythrough the summer solstice. There will come a rainy time, sometimes inSeptember, that will rehabilitate the mountains, fill the deep furrows andcover again the exposed ridges. After such a rain Mount Hood is suddenlytransformed to a thing of wondrous beauty and purity. The Sliding Mountain.—The Indians have a tradition that once thegreat snow mountains, Hood and Adams, stood close to the river at theCascades, with a natural arch of stone bridging one to the other. Themountains quarreled, threw out stones, ashes and fire, and, in their angerwith each other, demolished the arch. Before that time, the Indians say,their fathers had passed up and down beneath the arch in their canoes, andthe stream was navigable; but when the arch fell, it choked the river, andcreated the rapids that now exist. The legend goes on to say that theSahullah Tyhee, or Great Spirit, was so angry with the contendingmountains, that He hurled them north and south, where they stand Oregon Railway and Namgation Company. 239 TLis legend has some fouudation, judging from the present ife evident, from the state of the sliores and the submersion of forests, thatsome great convulsion has occurred and thrown down the rocky walls ad-joining the river. Just above the Cascades tlie view includes beautifulislands, not far from the brink of the rapids, and between the islandsana the rapids some ancient forest has been submerged, with the treetrunks still standing beneath the waves. It is common
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